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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Chris Dancer[/i] [br]I've used wire links in designs quite a lot and never had a problem, but the last set of boards I had made came back with solder resist over the pads. Not a major issue, I just had to scrape it off so I could solder the wires. I'm designing a new board now and decided to get to the bottom of this. I noticed that by default a wire link is terminated in vias (why??). I decided to try changing this, went into defaults, and set the pad style to be an existing type of normal copper pad that I use for resistors. However, when I place a link it still puts vias on the ends, vias with the dimensions of the pad I specified. I suspect if I had these made the boards would come back with resist on the pads again. They are vias, so why would there not be?! Is there a way to force links to have ordinary pads instead of vias? Alternatively is there a way to ensure vias have holes in the solder mask? Also, why don't wires appear in the 3D view? What would be a great improvement is to be able to use zero-ohm resistors as links without having to define them in the schematic. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.